Comments on: All the Passengers Movie McGuffins and Moral Delimmas Explained

By: De Advocate

De Advocate — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 19:21:08 +0000

Yeah, I would love to fix shit movies. Tagline: ‘We’ve taken the years worst movies and remade them without the forced studio executive input, the greed, and pandering to the lowest common denominator. The result? The version that’s actually watchable.’
-brought to you by People Who Don’t Give a Fuck-

By: Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 18:57:50 +0000

In reply to De Advocate.

Oh totally. Put her in his situation. Brilliant. Sorta more like a version of Moon, sans the clone. (woah, whoops, spoiler alert! hahah.) I’m digging it.

I actually just recently watched this video of a 1986 Ohio attempt to break the world record of a helium balloon launch record attempt, and how it went tragically wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8oJaPeEP-8

I think there is a movie literally in that video. Maybe a Drive Baby equivalent inserted into the middle of it… a bank heist all gone wrong, attempted under the cover of the balloon launch etc. It’d be fun to insert a found footage film into the middle of that video.

There’s probably an internet start up in here somewhere – a site that let’s you rework messy movie plots and fix them with story boards and such. You and I would be the only two people on the planet to use it. But I think someone should build it for us. hahaha.

By: De Advocate

De Advocate — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 18:31:58 +0000

I agree, this movie was tripe. It had a chance to touch on something great and it took the easy way out. It turned into a fairy tale.
The first part, where he is wrestling with waking someone up or not was great. I think if they would have shown him spending a longer time alone, then waking someone up would have been better. Yes a year is a long time, but 5 would have been better. Or 10. Imagine 10 years alone. (With NO fucking Android bartender for Pete’s sake. And let’s give the guy some decent damn coffee too!)
Waking someone up = murder, essentially. You are taking their life away, just slowly.
But what kind of hell is it to be alone with all those people sleeping away? He can see them. The need for human contact would be a very strong driving urge.
My version would be, he is alone for at least 5 years. On the verge of madness, he wakes someone up. Let’s even say it is still Jennifer Lawrence because why not? (but let’s not call her Aurora) So he cons her for awhile about her tube malfunctioning. Let’s not make them fall in love. We could complicate it with sex, but not love. She finds out and is mad as hell. Let’s explore that without suddenly making her fall in love with him. So then something happens where he has to go outside. Not a bunch of McGuffins. So he goes outside, fixes the ship and gets cut off the tether and floats away. Gone. Dead. No coming back.
Now we have Jennifer Lawrence alone. Empty. And we show it being another long stretch of time. She is going mad from the isolation. We leave the audience with a tease of her contemplating opening up a tube.
Eh? Better?
Explore what it means to be alone. What it means to need another person. The moral dilemma with more weight.
Blahhh Hollywood. Blahhh.